Today, you had a quiz on Shakespearean words (see yesterday's blogger for list) and then I explained Iambic pentameter. You then did an in-class activity and a take home one. The take home one is included here and is due tomorrow.
Reading Shakespeare: Skill Enhancement #2
INSTRUCTIONS: Read the following sonnet through as you would any poem:
Highlight unfamiliar words or phrases and look them up.
Search for literary devices, highlight and define
Paraphrase the poem line-by-line
Sonnet # 18
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed,
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed:
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st,
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
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